https://anash.org/conviction-confidentiality-and-discipline/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=conviction-confidentiality-and-discipline News, Views, Inspiration Mon, 30 Jun 2025 21:49:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://anash.org/conviction-confidentiality-and-discipline/#comment-721 Thu, 30 Apr 2020 11:46:11 +0000 https://anash.org/?p=126651#comment-721 Rabbi Hodakov and The Rebbe’s were intricately linked from the first time they met, but they shared a closer bond yet. Both being born in the same year, 1902, and passing away just a year apart.
Once a chaver of mine commented about the comparison in appearance of he and the Rebbe.
He put it thus: When Moshe Rabbeinu was up on Har Sinai for 40 days and 40 nights he neither ate nor drank nor slept during the whole time. What do you think he looked like when he descended?
You may think he would have looked like Rabbi Hodakov, No, he had the shining and radiant face of the Rebbe.
This is not meant to be disrespectful of Rabbi Hodakov who gladly gave all his kochos to the Rebbe and his cause to spread and strengthen Yiddishkeit. But it does show two sides to the Rebbe, the natural and the supernatural.

]]> https://anash.org/conviction-confidentiality-and-discipline/#comment-720 Thu, 30 Apr 2020 11:36:15 +0000 https://anash.org/?p=126651#comment-720 It was sometime in the mid-‘Mems’ (1980s) and I was sitting learning downstairs in 770.
I remember some sort of asifah taking place on the dais. Someone got up to speak and I recall thinking what a clear and a commanding voice they had. My focus was in the learning and I did not look up to see who was speaking. But my curiosity got the better of me and I did raise my head to see who it was.
I distinctly remember how amazed I was when I realised it was Rabbi Hodakov. Bearing in mind how frail and bent over he looked his voice and delivery was still so strong and articulate.

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